Research Question: What factors contribute to successful graduation rates in various high school environments: including but not limited to the type of school, availability of diverse coursework, religious and cultural background, geography and income of the area, and racial diversity?
Jillian Ehrlich: http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/bystate/Rankings.aspx?state=WA&ind=4464
This website includes the percentages of students that graduate from high school on time based on their race. The statistical data on this website is limited to public schools in Washington, but still gives the viewer an idea of how the race/ethnicity of an individual is related to the graduation rates of that individuals total racial group.
Jamison Barbaruolo: http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cr_baeo_t1.htm
Here are some stats showing high school graduation rates by state and race in 2001. It seems that southern states do in fact have lower successful graduation rates than their northern counterparts. Surprisingly we do not hold very high success rates in many states at all, with Iowa holding the highest, 93%, which is the outlier for this set. Trends in high school dropout and completion rates in the United States: 1972-2009
I also found this, which could help us all out.
Jillian Ehrlich TTEST
Analysis: Because the p value is a great deal higher than .05, we can not reject the null hypothesis that says that there is no relationship between people's feelings on whether the country is on the right track or not, and if people voted or not. This means that we do not have enough evidence for our research hypothesis. The results could be because of chance or sampling error. As p increases, the idea that results are based on chance also increases.
> t<-t.test(righttrack~ voted2004) > t
Welch Two Sample t-test
data: righttrack by voted2004
t = 1.29, df = 1593.632, p-value = 0.1972
alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is not equal to 0
95 percent confidence interval:
-0.008673627 0.042004622
sample estimates:
mean in group 1. Yes, voted mean in group 5. No, didn't vote
3.915074 3.898409
Kassandra Wright ttest
Analysis: The ttest tested whether the null hypothesis that: There is no relationship between peoples feelings towards big business and whether they feel that the US is on the right track. This null was rejected because the p-value was less than .05.
By looking at the means it can be inferred that people who feel the country is on the right track are more favored to big business.
t<-t.test(bigbiz~ righttrack)
t
Welch Two Sample t-test
data: bigbiz by righttrack
t = 4.4696, df = 220.987, p-value = 1.252e-05
alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is not equal to 0
95 percent confidence interval:
4.292259 11.062659
sample estimates:
mean in group 1. Right direction mean in group 5. Wrong track
62.10929 54.43183
- Kassandra Wright
kwright@temple.edu- Jillian Ehrlich
tue50449@temple.edu- Tyler Stamm
tue62746@temple.edu- Jamison Barbaruolo
Tue62941@temple.eduResearch Question: What factors contribute to successful graduation rates in various high school environments: including but not limited to the type of school, availability of diverse coursework, religious and cultural background, geography and income of the area, and racial diversity?
Links
http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/faces/study/StudyPage.xhtml?studyId=42&tab=files
http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/faces/study/StudyPage.xhtml?studyId=148&versionNumber=1&tab=files
http://www.k12.wa.us/DataAdmin/pubdocs/GradDropout/10-11/GradDropoutStats_2010-11.pdf
Jillian Ehrlich:
http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/bystate/Rankings.aspx?state=WA&ind=4464
This website includes the percentages of students that graduate from high school on time based on their race. The statistical data on this website is limited to public schools in Washington, but still gives the viewer an idea of how the race/ethnicity of an individual is related to the graduation rates of that individuals total racial group.
Tyler Stamm:
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=6190
Interesting statistic comparing the graduations rates of public schools and catholic high schools, as well as the percent of graduates who continue on to college. Not too sure if the information is completely trustworthy though since the source seems to be biased toward promoting catholic schools.
http://articles.mcall.com/2011-02-12/opinion/mc-letter-peterson-education-religion20110212_1_private-schools-religious-schools-public-schools
This article seems to support the claims of the above statistics so based off the two sources so I would say they are accurate
Jamison Barbaruolo:
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cr_baeo_t1.htm
Here are some stats showing high school graduation rates by state and race in 2001. It seems that southern states do in fact have lower successful graduation rates than their northern counterparts. Surprisingly we do not hold very high success rates in many states at all, with Iowa holding the highest, 93%, which is the outlier for this set.
Trends in high school dropout and completion rates in the United States: 1972-2009
I also found this, which could help us all out.
Back to Divided America
Jillian Ehrlich TTEST
Analysis: Because the p value is a great deal higher than .05, we can not reject the null hypothesis that says that there is no relationship between people's feelings on whether the country is on the right track or not, and if people voted or not. This means that we do not have enough evidence for our research hypothesis. The results could be because of chance or sampling error. As p increases, the idea that results are based on chance also increases.
> t<-t.test(righttrack~ voted2004)
> t
Welch Two Sample t-test
data: righttrack by voted2004
t = 1.29, df = 1593.632, p-value = 0.1972
alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is not equal to 0
95 percent confidence interval:
-0.008673627 0.042004622
sample estimates:
mean in group 1. Yes, voted mean in group 5. No, didn't vote
3.915074 3.898409
Kassandra Wright ttest
Analysis: The ttest tested whether the null hypothesis that: There is no relationship between peoples feelings towards big business and whether they feel that the US is on the right track. This null was rejected because the p-value was less than .05.
By looking at the means it can be inferred that people who feel the country is on the right track are more favored to big business.
- t<-t.test(bigbiz~ righttrack)
- t
Welch Two Sample t-testdata: bigbiz by righttrack
t = 4.4696, df = 220.987, p-value = 1.252e-05
alternative hypothesis: true difference in means is not equal to 0
95 percent confidence interval:
4.292259 11.062659
sample estimates:
mean in group 1. Right direction mean in group 5. Wrong track
62.10929 54.43183